12/10/2012

Japanese Farm Food was released on September 4 with the official kick
off to my Fall book tour held in the Chez Panisse Café – a wildly exciting
event that drew a group of 100 plus eclectic guests. The reviews have been
generous and the success of the book thus far is more than I could
have hoped for (I am slowly putting the links up on this site). But let’s put it into perspective. Japanese Farm Food is
selling much better than the publisher anticipated but we are not talking about
best-seller type numbers here!

Nonetheless, on October 25, Japanese Farm Food went into its 2nd printing. Unfortunately, given the printing in China variable, the book will
not make it back on the shelves until after Christmas (early to mid-January to
be precise). The 3rd printing is already in the works.

Japanese Farm Food has been selected by many newspapers, blogs, and
food magazines as one of the top cookbooks or top Holiday gift ideas of 2012. I feel devastated that we cannot get those books into people’s hands and have
come up with a few solutions.

Buy the book through an independent
bookseller and we can send you an artisanal Japanese paper bookplate with a
signed dedication. Most of these
booksellers are happy to send via post, the bookplate just requires a quick
dab, dab, dab with your glue stick. Certainly more expensive than Amazon but
think of it as a way to support those shops that still allow us the luxury of
picking up and browsing through real books. There is a short list below plus a
link to IndieBound, though I cannot guarantee the numbers are still correct.
Some of the venues have the hand written bookplates already in the books.

Order the book now from Amazon
or wherever and give a Japanese Farm Food post card as a place marker gift. Deliver the actual book to your person in
January. I have sent post cards and bookplates to my publicist at the publisher
so they can be sent to you fairly quickly via USPS.

Please email me: nancyhachisu
at me dot com with your address and request for the handwritten bookplate
and/or the Japanese Farm Food post card. Plus a brief sentence to show me who
you are.